Will Nintendo Mature titles hurt them?

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Mnementh said:

nintendo_fanboy said:

Here in Europe and especially in germany (not so much in switzerland) this killer-games thing has been a big issue during the last years, and this could increase with the wii. as far as i know, red steel can't be sold to people younger than 18 in germany and i think most of the wii-fps will experience the same.

If this gets a subject in the media, this could become a problem for nintendo, because casuals don't distinguish between the various consoles, which means that they call the wii "the new playstation" and they don't know about nintendos kiddie-image aswell.

but if this is only discussed by gamers, it could even help nintendo, because a big issue for nintendo here during the last two generations was their kiddie-image, which made it uncool to own nintendo-systems.

Actually the USK (the organisation here at germany, that decides at which age you can buy a game) had a press-statement, that red steel had only a 18+-rating because of the controller. With a classical-controller it would allowed for a younger audience. But with a wiimote you swing your sword more directly. source (in german): http://www.gamezone.de/news_detail.asp?nid=51014&sys=

Swinging the sword in Red Steel is like pg, I'm calling it "No More Heroes will not be released there". Or it will be a indexed game like Gears of War. It looks so violent from the trailer on IGN and the devolpment team was told to make the game as violent as possible, they said "Make the game more violent then Manhunt" (I don't know how violent Manhunt is) so that is going to be a problem.